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Category: Julia in Malawi Italy and India

On Learning, Teaching and Goodbyes

July 1, 2018 Leave a comment
students walking along dirt path

           Leaving Berkley for our 22-hour trek to Malawi felt for the most part surreal. Partly because of the extremely immersive and busy schedule we’d had in the Bay Area, I had almost forgotten we wouldn’t be spending the entire semester there. It was difficult to wrap my head around the fact that we would be traveling with only each

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What is an IHP Program Really?

April 12, 2018 Leave a comment
Students walking along path on organic farm

I knew study abroad would be a great opportunity for me to learn how to admit and recognize all the things I don’t know. What I wasn’t expecting was that I would get lots of great practice learning to say “I don’t know” before I even departed for my program. After learning about my admission to the IHP Rethinking Food

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Malva standing in front of SIT’s Zanzibar office with her completed independent study project completed

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